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That reminds of a passage from one of the Eragon books where Roran gets... Intimate with some dirt.

Believe it or not, it is both as weird and not as weird as it sounds.
 
...That awful, awful feeling you get when you start thinking you will never experience the kind of love and devotion you are witnessing in the form of two fucked up teenagers making the best of their shitty lives. :(

Feels bad, man.
 
Ranma-sensei said:
...Oh dear Merlin, what have I done!?
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You've been reading my thoughts recently, haven't you?
That's why I like you. No homo.


Lazurman said:
...That awful, awful feeling you get when you start thinking you will never experience the kind of love and devotion you are witnessing in the form of two fucked up teenagers making the best of their shitty lives. :(

Feels bad, man.
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Exactly. I once talked to Stryp, and it's almost word-for-word from me.

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Lazurman said:
...That awful, awful feeling you get when you start thinking you will never experience the kind of love and devotion you are witnessing in the form of two fucked up teenagers making the best of their shitty lives. :(

Feels bad, man.
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The price they had to pay to get to that point in their lives was quite steep, though. I know if I were incapable of getting a single night's good sleep I'd go insane inside of a week.
 
JumperPrime said:
Well, Asuka IS the person she looks to for how an ordinary teenage girl should act. Some amount of tsun contamination is only to be expected.
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Hee hee. Conversation with one of my betas from months ago:
They said:
I'm looking forward to seeing just how Rei handles having conflicted feelings [ED: 'conflicted' here being 'I want to kill him to protect my loves' vs 'I'm not allowed to kill him'.] towards a boy. She doesn't have Asuka's explosiveness or aggression so she'd probably start alternating between ignoring him and psychoanalyzing him or something... then ending up infuriated because he's so chill there's nothing to psychoanalyze about him and going back to ignoring him!
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I said:
All true... but her chosen role model for social interactions and such when she doesn't know what to do is Asuka. :V
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And @Wint? @Lazurman? You never know. I had nothing and no expectations. Then I saw @LilithPrime across a crowded dance floor at a ball...
Our 10th Anniversary will be in January. Anything can happen.

In the mean time, enjoy the feels. Asuka and Shinji have won a measure of happiness together while they soldier on, but the war is far from done, and their relationship is becoming difficult to conceal from parties that might be less willing to let it be than Misato and Kaji. SEELE and Gendo are still the kings on this chessboard, and in the context of the Scenario... all of the Children are expendable. Two of them especially...


Sleep tight, ladies.
 
Ranma-sensei said:
I know you're trying to be funny, but you're not.

And Kaworu literally doesn't have a concept of human sexuality norms, so, apart from him not being a part (sorry; couldn't help myself) of the cast long enough to develop romantic feelings, he could crush on a tree, for all we know.

...Oh dear Merlin, what have I done!?
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Kaworu' sexual orientation is like Captain Jack from Torchwood, He's willing to 'love' Everything.

Misato: What happened to Pen-Pen?
Asuka: We had to sacrifice him to the Angel of free love.
Shinji: Kaworu wanted to cuddle.
Rei: You said no violence while in the appartment.
 
Itsune said:
Kaworu' sexual orientation is like Captain Jack from Torchwood, He's willing to 'love' Everything.

Misato: What happened to Pen-Pen?
Asuka: We had to sacrifice him to the Angel of free love.
Shinji: Kaworu wanted to cuddle.
Rei: You said no violence while in the appartment.
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Thank you very much for that mental image of Kowaru going kawaii, you buggers.
 
Strypgia said:
They are not given to cruelty and malice,
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We are still talking about Asuka here, right?

Strypgia said:
"Good evening, Nagisa. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
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While it was a book first, it became perhaps the most quotable movie, ever.

Strypgia said:
"You're just like me, and I know the notion has crossed my mind. Stupid sexy Rei."
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Oh... of all the times to not have a voice recorder going.

Strypgia said:
I wonder if I should put that in the FFnet version?
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Uh... why not?

Jake said:
Platonically so, of course. Aside from her own... complicated romantic situation, Kaworu is gayer than a treeful of monkeys breathing helium.
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I'm not sure what that means... but it made me laugh.
 
Itsune said:
Kaworu' sexual orientation is like Captain Jack from Torchwood, He's willing to 'love' Everything.

Misato: What happened to Pen-Pen?
Asuka: We had to sacrifice him to the Angel of free love.
Shinji: Kaworu wanted to cuddle.
Rei: You said no violence while in the appartment.
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And here I thought Rebuild!Misato was the Pen-sexual...
 
It might be a bit off topic, but there was a song I was thinking about today, that reminded me greatly of Gendo. Moon Above, Sun Below by Opeth.



For those who don't want to hear the song, the lyrics are:

You are sleeping unhampered by guilt
Comes the morning you shut down
The devil's breath a disease on your lips
Reaching out for your loss
You prey on your flock

Seeking out the weaker hearts
With eternity in your grip
And on a lifelong throne of sub-religion
They will eat from your head

With the moon above and the sun below (repeated x4)

I can't remember the sun upon my skin
Slave to a sorrow that is whispering within
I'm always waiting for you before I sleep
There is no comfort in the distance that we keep

In a river of grief I am drowning
And your grip is surrounding my heart
Balancing on the edge of failure
And relieved, should I fall
Scattered dust upon my eyes
A winding road taking you nowhere
A winding road taking me home
And my home is my grave

Waiting for a day when there is nothing left to say

Voices of despair is a familiar friendship
A society in your head holds the code to destruction

Dying fast
Summer dying fast
And this can't last, as nothing ever lasts
In a forest of flesh
There is a need to sever myself away from happiness

Still no drifting sun
Black upon the earth
Still the air is dry
And the locust wait

There is no help in the wake of our needs
There is no help to dispel the pain
There is no help yet some cling to a phantom
There is no help, only circles on the water

Only circles on the water

And on the subject of music

Strypgia said:
Then I saw @LilithPrime across a crowded dance floor at a ball...
Our 10th Anniversary will be in January. Anything can happen.
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The way you met her reminds me of the song Day 11-Love by Ayreon from the album The Human Equation. Very similar setting for the main character in the song :)



Oh, it appears @Wint beat me to the punch. Lol

I tip my hat to you sir :)
 
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Not too far off, really. Black tie ball at Anime Weekend Atlanta. I went in my Army Dress Greens. I saw this gorgeous redhead across the dance floor, abandoned by the Navy Ensign that had brought her. Naturally, I was terrified and paralyzed. A Chaplain's Assistant named Josh Laird gave me a push. I went over and asked her to dance. (I don't have the faintest idea how to dance.) 3 months later we got together the day before I left for a year in Iraq. A year later she spent a month of leave in Europe with me. A year after that we were married. ...on a mountaintop at sunset.

But the song that always made me think of how we met was this:


To tie this back to the story, I freely admit I do take advantage of the fact that I know what being that in love feels like when I write for our favorite couple. @LilithPrime and I aren't even a fraction as damaged as Shinji and Asuka, but I well know that aching feeling of the world not being right, of not being whole without That One near you, and how right everything feels when they are. I truly don't sleep as well without her next to me, and neither does she.

Anyhow! I just jammed out 800+ words of scene notes and ideas for the next chunk of Ch 9, and I think I'll be able to get started on the first bits tomorrow.
 
Well, that's it, folks. All out of hugs to give now.

Now that I think about it, that sounds quite similar to how my parents met. He saw her across the dance floor, and needed a push from his best friend to ask her to dance. And the rest is history.
 
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Strypgia said:
Not too far off, really. Black tie ball at Anime Weekend Atlanta. I went in my Army Dress Greens. I saw this gorgeous redhead across the dance floor, abandoned by the Navy Ensign that had brought her. Naturally, I was terrified and paralyzed. A Chaplain's Assistant named Josh Laird gave me a push. I went over and asked her to dance. (I don't have the faintest idea how to dance.) 3 months later we got together the day before I left for a year in Iraq. A year later she spent a month of leave in Europe with me. A year after that we were married. ...on a mountaintop at sunset.

But the song that always made me think of how we met was this:


To tie this back to the story, I freely admit I do take advantage of the fact that I know what being that in love feels like when I write for our favorite couple. @LilithPrime and I aren't even a fraction as damaged as Shinji and Asuka, but I well know that aching feeling of the world not being right, of not being whole without That One near you, and how right everything feels when they are. I truly don't sleep as well without her next to me, and neither does she.
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Cliche as it sounds...
DAAAAAAAWW!
 
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